Your weekly dose of Irish ☘️🤗
Nov 18, 2022 1:46 pm
Here's your weekly dose of Irish for Friday, November 18th 2022...
- Irish proverb: The light heart lives long.
Latest updates:
- I got caught up last week and didn't get a chance to send out the weekly dose.
- Are you in need of a good holiday? Booking.com, along with every other company, seems to have a Black Friday deal. But I noticed Booking.com has a massive 30% Black Friday discount on stays throughout 2023. Just make sure to book by the 1st of December 2022. See all their deals via this link. Happy holiday hunting! 🤗
- Also, I think I will need some additional time to put the recipes together. As I want to ensure they are not just delicious but the photography is good too. So stay tuned for that.
- I only have around seven poems left to do on the top 100 Irish poems list! 😲
- Otherwise, I wish you a fantastic weekend!
This weeks posts
🎤 Cork Boy On TikTok Singing With Cork Busker Reaches Nearly 1 Million Views
Well, now, being from Cork myself, I always enjoy seeing some locals get out there on social media.
Korey Power, who is regularly singing and doing live shows on TikTok, …
The post-Cork Boy On TikTok Singing With Cork Busker Reaches Nearly 1 Million Views appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🏠 VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971)
It can be hard to imagine in present-day what life would be like with 10 children.
I am sure there are some cases, but they are infrequent.
This clip from …
The post VIDEO: What Life Was Like With 10 Kids In A Three-Bed In Dublin(1971) appeared first on Irish Around The World.
🎄 The Night Of Women’s Christmas(Oíche Nollag na mBan), by Seán Ó Ríordáin
With Christmas coming up in a few weeks I felt the poem Oíche Nollag na mBan, by Seán Ó Ríordáin would be a great choice!
This week I have selected …
The post The Night Of Women’s Christmas(Oíche Nollag na mBan), by Seán Ó Ríordáin appeared first on Irish Around The World.
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Today in Irish history, November 18th:
November 18th:
1703 - On 18 November, the Commons hears a petition from Sir Kildare Dixon Burrowes, John Allen, Robert Dixon, Francis Spring, Alexander Gradon (all MPs) and 'other inhabitants of the County of Kildare complaining that the inhabitants of the said County have been under great oppressions and grievances by the exorbitant power of Maurice [another MP], John and Francis Annesley, Esqrs, Justices of the Peace. Shortly before this, the burgesses and freemen of Naas also complained about the activities of the Annesleys. The allegations against Maurice and Francis are found not to be proved, but John is found to have illegally extorted money under cover of warrants and fees and is removed as sheriff
1709 - Birth of Henry Loftus, Earl of Ely and 4th Viscount; politician and proprietor of several boroughs
1873 - A three-day conference begins in Dublin to establish the Home Rule League. It will supersede Isaac Butt's Home Government Association
1880 - An historic meeting takes place at Queens Hotel, Belfast which will have far-reaching effects on the administration of football in Ireland. At what is, in effect, the inaugural meeting of the Irish Football Association, the IFA elects its first President, Major Spencer Chichester and agrees to stage an annual Challenge Cup Competition
1899 - Death of William Allingham, poet
1922 - Court martial of Erskine Childers begins
1926 George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to him a year earlier. He said: "I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1960 - The first Aer Lingus Boeing jet, Padraig arrives at Dublin Airport
1999 - Former US senator George Mitchell makes his final report into the Good Friday Agreement; he urges the IRA to appoint its representative to discuss disarmament on the same day the new power-sharing government is set up
2000 - Ensign Marie Gleeson of Cashel becomes the first female cadet to capture the prestigious Fastnet Trophy. The award is given to the cadet who achieves first place in his or her class
2002 - The Belfast High Court is told that Sinn Féin's administration office manager at Stormont, Denis Donaldson, is an active member of the IRA's intelligence unit with connections to terrorist groups in Europe and in El Salvador.
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So what is this week's top Irish poem?
With Christmas coming up in a few weeks, I felt the poem Oíche Nollag na mBan, by Seán Ó Ríordáin would be a great choice! This week I have selected poem number 95 from the top 100 Irish poems list. A short poem that was originally written in Irish and translated into English. I have included the English version first, followed by the Irish one.
What is the poem Oíche Nollag na mBan By Seán Ó Ríordáin all about?
In this early 1947 poem, Seán Rordáin, listening in the solitude of his sick room, nearly appears to delight in the wild wildness of the storm. His hope to be caught up in a comparable storm while returning fatigued from the dance of life would not be granted. When he died thirty years later, it was a considerably more drawn-out event of which he was acutely aware.
What is Women's Christmas or Little Women's Christmas?
Some of you may not have heard the phrase before, but it falls on the twelfth and final day of Christmas; women’s Christmas or Little Christmas was traditionally a day off from all housework for women as a reward for their hard work over the season. Of course, in modern days, this wonderful event has now developed into a day celebrating women, and where many women gather to share and celebrate each other.
Translated Into English:
The Night Of Women’s Christmas
There was fury in the storm that came last night
last night, the Christmas of Women;
as if released from a distant bedlam
a lunatic shriek through the sky;
rattling against the gate like the gaggling of geese
roaring up the river like a bellowing bull
dousing my candle like a blow upon my mouth:-
an unexpected spark for anger .
I hope such a storm will come to me
The night I begin to die
As I return home from the dance of life
with the light of this life failing,
so every moment might be filled with cries from the sky,
transforming the world into a chorus of screams,
so I would not hear the silence moving toward me
or feel the engine that moves me stop.
Oíche Nollag na mBan By Seán Ó Ríordáin
Oíche Nollag na mBan
Bhí fuinneamh sa stoirm a éalaigh aréir.
Aréir oíche Nollaig na mBan,
As gealt-teach iargúlta ‘tá laistiar den ré
Is do scréach tríd an spéir chughainn ‘na gealt
Gur ghíosc geataí comharsan mar ghogallach gé,
Gur bhúir abhainn slaghdánach mar tharbh,
Gur mhúchadh mo choinneal mar bhuille ar mo bhéal
A las ‘na splanc obann an fhearg.
Ba mhaith liom go dtiocfadh an stoirm sin féin
An oíche go mbeadsa go lag
Ag filleadh abhaile ó rince an tsaoil
Is solas an pheaca ag dul as,
Go líonfaí gach neomat le liúirigh ón spéir,
Go ndéanfaí den domhan scuaine scread,
Is ná cloisfinn an ciúnas ag gluaiseacht fám dhéin,
Ná inneall an ghluaisteáin ag stad.
Did you enjoy this wonderful poem? It was originally published in 1947. Be sure to share Oíche Nollag na mBan By Seán Ó Ríordáin.
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Irish Joke:
An Irish man is driving down a deserted stretch of highway when he notices a sign out of the corner of his eye. It says, 'Sisters of Mercy House of Prostitution 15 mi.’
He thinks it is just a figment of his imagination and drives on without a second thought.
Soon, he sees another sign that says, 'Sisters of Mercy House of Prostitution 8 mi’ and realizes that these signs are for real.
When he drives past a third sign saying, 'Sisters of Mercy House of Prostitution Next Right, ' his curiosity gets the better of him, and he pulls into the drive.
On the far side of the parking lot is a sombre stone building with a small sign next to the door saying, 'Sisters of Mercy.
He climbs the steps and rings the bell.
The door is answered by a nun in a long black habit who asks, 'What may we do for you, my son?’
'He answers, 'I saw your signs along the highway and was interested in possibly doing business.
''Very well, my son. Please follow me.’
He is led through many winding passages and is soon quite disoriented.
The nun stops at a closed door and tells the man, 'Please knock on this door.
He does as he is told, and this door is answered by another nun in a long habit and holding a tin cup.
This nun instructs, 'Please place $50 in the cup, then go through the large wooden door at the end of this hallway.’
He gets $50 out of his wallet and places it in the second nun's cup.
He then trots eagerly down the hall and slips through the door, pulling it shut behind him.
As the door locks behind him, he finds himself back in the parking lot facing another small sign.
The sign says, ‘Go in Peace. You Have Just Been Screwed by the Sisters of Mercy.’
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